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Brief Synopsis

A white veteran goes to a black ghetto to deliver a letter from his black Army buddy who died in Vietnam. He encounters hostility and trouble from all sides.

Jim is a white man who fought in Vietnam. After an African American friend is killed in combat, Jim contacts the man's father to give him a note that his son had written for him. But when he goes to the man's house, he is confronted by his friend's brother Makimba, who hates white people. Makimba and his friends are chasing Jim intending on beating him up, when two racist detectives intervene. This only makes matters worse for Jim when Makimba blames him for the incident.